Year Of No Light has premiered an epic new video for the track “Réalgar,” off their upcoming Pelagic Records’ debut Consolamentum due on July 2nd. The forthcoming LP will be the fifth studio album from French post-metal sextet, and it is one of their heaviest to date. The group explains:
“There’s a thread running through all of our albums, an exploration of the sensitive world that obeys a certain telos, first fantasized (“Nord”) and reverberated (“Ausserwelt”), then declaimed as a warning (“Tocsin”). The deeper we dig, the more the motifs we have to unveil appear to us. Yes, it’s a bit gnostic. This album is invoked after the Tocsin, it’s the epiphany of the Fall.”
The album title refers to an initiation ritual of the Catharic Church, which thrived in Southern Europe in the 12th – 14th Century. On the track “Réalgar,” Year Of No Light combines the solemn and celestial into a soaring, cathartic composition filled with towering light and heavy, effacing darkness. The short film for the track was written and directed by Corentin Schieb, Mathias Averty, and Célia Le Goaziou. A deep dive into the archetypes of the psyche, this harrowing video is ultimately a story of restoration and redemption.
